Starving Venezuelans giving away their children to survive
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Venezuelan parents are giving up their children to survive as the South American country’s suffers with a catastrophic economic crisis.
Three local councils and four national welfare groups say there is an increase in parents handing kids over to the state, charities, friends and family.
A baby boy was recently found abandoned inside a bag in capital Caracas and a malnourished one-year-old boy was found in a cardboard box in Ciudad Guayana in recent months.
The trend is an indictment of Venezuela's triple-digit inflation and near 80 per cent currency collapse over the last year.
“This is written in the bible. We’re living in the end of times,” said Zulay Pulgar, who gave her six-year-old daughter to a neighbour in October. “It’s better that she has another family than go into prostitution, drugs or die of hunger.”
The mother-of-seven and her unemployed husband live on his father’s $6-a-month pension.
The 43-year-old told the Reuters news agency that one chicken meal costs half their monthly income. All they eat is bread, coffee and rice, she said.
Nany Garcia, the 54-year-old neighbour who took the girl in, works in a grocery shop and has five children of her own.
“My husband, my children and I teach her to behave, how to study, to dress, to talk… She now calls me ‘mum’ and my husband ‘dad’,” she said.[/quote]
[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/starving-venezuelans-giving-away-children-survive-economic-crisis-a7479756.html[/url]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-children-idUSKBN1441TB[/url]
What the fuck is wrong with this world?
How did things come to be like this?
[QUOTE=genpung;51541083]What the fuck is wrong with this world?
How did things come to be like this?[/QUOTE]
Things have always been like this, the places just change.
[QUOTE=genpung;51541083]Snip-O[/QUOTE]
Remember all those starving children in Africa? The world has always been like this.
[QUOTE=genpung;51541083]What the fuck is wrong with this world?
How did things come to be like this?[/QUOTE]
Greedy politicians robbing the country for all it's worth, until nobody else has anything left.
[QUOTE=genpung;51541083]What the fuck is wrong with this world?
How did things come to be like this?[/QUOTE]
I think you mean what's wrong with Venezuela, and the answer probably ends with an -ism.
[QUOTE=Sims_doc;51541139]Remember all those starving children in Africa? The world has always been like this.[/QUOTE]
No it hasn't. Venezuela wasn't like this 15 years ago. Fuck, it wasn't even this bad 2 years ago. It's got to this point because every single person who had the ability to do something about it has refused to, neighboring countries washed their hands off the Venezuelan problem, so did the US, so did Russia, so did China, so did the media, so did the PSUV, so did the MUD. Venezuelans live in a state of constant fucking despair and chaos, and there is just not one soul who wants to legitimately do something to change that.
All it would take to get the ball rolling would be to legitimately sanction Maduro like the criminal he is. Just a demonstration from somebody that they believe Nicolas Maduro is unfit to run a country.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51541213]Can we annex Venezuela already like we did with cisplatina and fix them[/QUOTE]
bitch we stole your emperor's march right from your hands after you ran away
Bitch please
[QUOTE=Big Bang;51541256]No it hasn't. Venezuela wasn't like this 15 years ago. Fuck, it wasn't even this bad 2 years ago. It's got to this point because every single person who had the ability to do something about it has refused to, neighboring countries washed their hands off the Venezuelan problem, so did the US, so did Russia, so did China, so did the media, so did the PSUV, so did the MUD. Venezuelans live in a state of constant fucking despair and chaos, and there is just not one soul who wants to legitimately do something to change that.
All it would take to get the ball rolling would be to legitimately sanction Maduro like the criminal he is. Just a demonstration from somebody that they believe Nicolas Maduro is unfit to run a country.[/QUOTE]
I thought Sims was referring to the fact that people have always done some pretty crappy stuff when facing starvation
For example when the Visigoths crossed the Danube into the Roman Empire they sold their children in the hopes that the children would be fed, and they themselves could buy something to eat for whatever amount of coin they got
Atleast they arent eating their children
I was born there (Family was there on vacation), my mothers sister apparently lives there. My parents always said how beautiful the country was. Makes me sad that I might never get to see that.
be grateful for what you have. waking in a comfort bed, with a computer, smartphone, and food in the fridge to name a very few
[QUOTE=Chonch;51541226]I think you mean what's wrong with Venezuela, and the answer probably ends with an -ism.[/QUOTE]
Corruptionism?
[QUOTE=Chonch;51541226]I think you mean what's wrong with Venezuela, and the answer probably ends with an -ism.[/QUOTE]
lol that didn't take long
[editline]17th December 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=genpung;51541083]What the fuck is wrong with this world?
How did things come to be like this?[/QUOTE]
There's far less of this kind of thing going on in the world than there was even just a hundred years ago, and we're most likely on an overall trajectory of less and less poverty. This sucks, but its not indicative of things getting worse internationally.
[QUOTE=Chonch;51541226]I think you mean what's wrong with Venezuela, and the answer probably ends with an -ism.[/QUOTE]
God damn Isaac Newton and his prism!
[QUOTE=Riller;51542811]God damn Isaac Newton and his prism![/QUOTE]
It's obviously the baptism
[QUOTE=Mallow234;51542835]It's obviously the baptism[/QUOTE]
Maybe it's some sort of organism?
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51541213]Can we annex Venezuela already like we did with cisplatina and fix them[/QUOTE]
You'd think that, but I doubt Brazil would want to pick up the burden of restoring order and whatnot, even with the mineral wealth of the country. Not to mention, I imagine annexation would have other complications involved, even though the FAB has twice as many active personnel as Venezuela's armed forces, who might not be as effective if they're suffering the same famine as the general populace. And while Venezuela would probably end up being better off under Brazilian governance (which probably isn't saying much, considering Brazil's own problems), I don't think Nicolas Tempura Shrimp would give it up so easily, and I don't know if the Brazilian people itself is willing to help shoulder the burden of getting an entire nation back on its feet.
But at least there is no economical divide, right guys? Right?
[QUOTE=Riller;51542837]Maybe it's some sort of organism?[/QUOTE]
I'm suspicious of philanthropism
[QUOTE=Goberfish;51542577]Corruptionism?[/QUOTE]
well that's a synonim to what he meant
I thought it was something to do with Hamburgerism?
Maybe the problem roots further back, to 1054, with the Great Schism?
Just a stab in the dark here, but it smells like they're on the payroll of Mister Tempura Shrimp if you ask me.
I've been to Guyana for the whole November and whenever you speak to them about Venezuela it's as if you've spoken about a taboo issue.
[QUOTE=Riller;51542902]Maybe the problem roots further back, to 1054, with the Great Schism?[/QUOTE]
Perhaps it's from the 1800s with the rise of disestablishmentarianism
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